All the children rushed forward to witness his humiliation and formed an open path that led straight out of the playground. “Mommy, if he makes poo-poo in his pants, does his mommy make him wear dydees like me? He looks awfully big for dydees!”, said a precocious and inquisitive little girl to her mother who was frantically trying to shush her.
“He’s only a big baby!”, said a six-year-old boy in a splendid display of masculine abhorrence to weakness in any form as they passed by. The six-year-old’s derision was driven by the fact that he had only graduated from diapers the year before. As a consequence, he used every opportunity to belittle younger children who still hadn’t mastered bowel and bladder control. He wanted everyone he met to know that he was fully in control of himself and would never need diapers again.